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my boss just got a computer with vista,, she is 70yo and a new computer user. She likes to play the game Mad Caps.. for some reason after the last vista update the game will no longer play.. i have uninstalled and reinstalled.. the game loads up as if to play then the resolution changes and it shuts off.. any suggestions?

my boss just got a computer with vista,, she is 70yo and a new computer user. She likes to play the game Mad Caps.. for some reason after the last vista update the game will no longer play.. i have uninstalled and reinstalled.. the game loads up as if to play then the resolution changes and it shuts off.. any suggestions?

Thanks, debbie

Where did the game come from? Shrink wrap or download? Paid or free? I can think of two things that would be causing what you are seeing.

1) If the software was from one of the many free games websites, Vista/Defender/Microsoft's Malicious Software Utility could be flagging the application as a threat and killing it every time you launch it.

2) A video driver upgrade was automatically installed and it is not compatibile with the gaming software. If you were not having any problems with the video before, you should be able to rollback the video driver driver. Otherwise, you might have to obtain a newer version of Mad Caps.

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well we finally got everything straightened out.. we had to force it to run in the XP mode. We are still having terrible problems with little pop ups tho.. they are from the computer itself not from the internet.. sometimes as many as 15 at a time one right after the other... anybody have this problem with Vista?

A bit of detail on the popups would help. Are these just system popup notifications like "you are now connected to *network name" or "a cable is unplugged". Or installed software notifications like from your virus progam "you haven't performed a full system scan in 2,000 days" or update notifications like "there is a java update available" ?

Or are they like advertisements or link to sites?

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"People do not quit playing because they grow old, they grow old because they quit playing" George Bernard Shaw

Systems from many of the ďbigĒ manufacturers can come pre-installed with partner software, which often bombards the user with popup-like messages about purchasing, scanning, updating and so on. Not only is this annoying, but these programs are almost always unnecessary and greatly deteriorate the machines performance. All new systems here at work get a fresh load of Windows for this very reason.

I also get frequent complaints about pop-ups in Vista and it turns out to be the user account control settings of the OS. I have seen both Vista and 7 deliver these messages more aggressively when running programs configured for compatibility mode in the preferences dialogue. These normally occur at program startup however, and Iíve not seen them come in large batches like youíre describing.

You shouldn't be getting bombarded with pop-ups from the OS, but without knowing more Iím really just speculating as to what might be happening in your case.

To get rid of those unneeded programs, if that is in fact part of your problem I've heard recommended a little program called PC DeCrapifier ... really

I've not used it myself, so I'm just passing it along.

It would be nice if you could purchase PC's without all of that, but the price would go up significantly. I did buy a notebook sized laptop once that had nothing but Windows XP on it, it was soooo sweet, of course it was for the kid to carry to school and soon had enough messengers and myspace use on it that it was slowed to a crawl anyway.

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